在全球大流行的魔掌中，可能在未来一年或更长时间后疫苗会问世，了解情况从未像现在这样重要。我们对抗COVID-19的最佳武器是信息。既要知道如何作为一群人来解决它，又要知道何时改变我们的行为。
好消息是我们生活在一个数据时代，因此有许多冠状病毒(Coronavirus)仪表板可以帮助您。这些是帮助您了解正在发生的事情以及您应该如何计划您的动作的四个最佳示例。
安全警报！
似乎无论我们要应对什么样的灾难，总会有人试图以某种方式从中获利。可悲的是，黑客和恶意软件( malicious software)的创建者已经开始创建令人信服的冠状病毒仪表板(Coronavirus dashboard)站点，这些站点实际上窃取了您的数据或用恶意软件感染了您的计算机。始终(Always)仔细检查地址并确保您使用的是合法网站。
世卫组织仪表板(The WHO Dashboard)
让我们从一个冠状病毒仪表板(Coronavirus dashboard)开始，这可能是许多其他网站获取信息的地方。那么为什么不直接从马嘴里得到呢？
世界卫生组织(World Health Organization)是帮助各国政府针对 COVID-19 大流行进行协调和制定战略的中心机构。他们的网站极简主义，从一开始就拥有所有最重要的信息，您只需单击它即可轻松缩小到您想查看的世界任何地区。
世卫组织(WHO)还包括一种仅按地区显示COVID死亡人数的模式和一个气泡图模式(map mode)，可让您一目了然地按国家/地区显示病例的相对规模。如果您从主地图向下滚动，则会出现经过深思熟虑的数据细分，以帮助您了解全球舞台上正在发生的事情。
谷歌仪表板(The Google Dashboard)
如果您搜索“冠状病毒”，您将直接进入Google自己的概览页面(overview page)。它将谷歌(Google)可以找到的所有相关信息集中到一个地方。
谷歌服务(Google service)有点混乱，一秒钟可能会有点混乱，但一旦你明白了谷歌(Google)试图做的事情，这一切都变得非常有意义。“概述(Overview)”选项卡会向您提供与大流行相关的重要突发新闻，但实际地图在页面右侧的自己的小盒子中被隐藏起来。如果您单击“查看完整地图(View full map)”，您将被带到一个专门的地图页面(map page)，从Google为您检测到的位置开始。
这显然是建立在现有的谷歌地图基础(Google Maps foundation)上的，所以如果你习惯使用该系统，那么这张地图已经很熟悉了。该地图非常容易阅读，并提供州或省(state or province)的数据，具体取决于国家和相关数据。
回到第一页并选择“统计(Statistics)”部分，还可以对一段时间内的感染趋势进行简单细分。谷歌(Google)也从几个不同的来源提取数据，因此如果您有疑问，值得将其数据与其他来源进行比较。谷歌(Google)还提供了触手可及的症状、治疗和预防信息。这是与朋友和家人分享的绝佳仪表板。
必应仪表板(The Bing Dashboard)
谷歌(Google)也不甘示弱，微软的必(Bing)应也提供了一个 COVID-19 追踪器。老实说，从设计和界面的角度来看(design and interface perspective)，这要好得多。与Google 产品(Google offering)不同，这似乎是一个被设计成一个有凝聚力的整体的网站。
当然，如果数据不好，看起来并不意味着什么，也许Bing并没有像(Bing doesn)谷歌(Google)一开始那样有效地传达统计数据。然而，一旦你知道你在看什么，它就会变得非常简单。
特别是地图弹出摘要(map popup summary)是一个很好的接触，显示了与每个区域相关的大数字的简明细分。(concise breakdown)Bing的地图(s map)使用气泡格式显示每个区域的病例数，只要您不将圆圈解释为地理分布就可以了。
与Google一样，Bing使用多种数据源，并希望提供比仅依赖一个来源的网站更准确的整体情况。微软(Microsoft)所做的另一件巧妙的事情是提供一个 COVID-19 常见问题解答机器人(Bot)，它可以回答与该疾病相关的广泛问题。虽然 Bing 在搜索引擎结果质量(engine result quality)方面可能并不领先，但在这种情况下，他们已经超越了Google。
约翰霍普金斯大学 COVID-19 仪表板(The Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 Dashboard)
约翰霍普金斯医科大学(Johns Hopkins University)很可能是世界上最著名的医疗机构，他们毫不费力地开发并以 COVID-19 地图的形式提供了复杂的冠状病毒(Medicine)仪表板。(Coronavirus dashboard)
在视觉设计方面，这看起来就像好莱坞(Hollywood)军事惊悚片中的家，但如果你能克服令人沮丧的配色方案(color scheme)，你会发现可用的最好的流行病地图之一。
我们真正喜欢的一件事是地图左侧按国家/地区排列的病例列表。当涉及到旅行问题时，这会立即向您显示哪些国家应该在您的列表顶部。
不利的一面是，只有美国通过专用地图获得更详细的区域数据。因此，此冠状病毒仪表板(Coronavirus dashboard)将对美国居民(US resident)或寻找美国大流行数据的人最有用。如果您是美国居民，(US resident)约翰霍普金斯地图(Johns Hopkins map)提供的信息非常宝贵，我们建议您在想知道您所在国家/地区发生的事情时(call whenever)将此站点添加为第一个停靠点。
坚持基础！
在这样的危机时刻，我们可以获得如此多的信息，这真是太好了。但是，无论当前的统计数据如何，每个人为限制COVID-19的影响应采取的基本步骤都应该没有区别：
- (Stay)与他人保持至少六英尺的距离
- 经常用肥皂或含酒精的洗手液洗手20 秒(hand sanitizer)
- 在公共场合始终佩戴布口罩以遏制无症状传播
- 定期对门把手等表面进行消毒
目前没有疫苗和批准的药物来治疗严重的COVID-19病例。因此，您最好的防御措施是首先防止感染。COVID-19通过含有病毒的飞沫传播，通常通过眼睛、鼻子和嘴巴进入。
只听取您的政府卫生(government health)官员和世界卫生组织等组织(World Health Organization)的建议。请勿在社交媒体或私人信息中分享有关COVID-19的虚假或未经证实的声明。(COVID-19)
如果我们都能改变我们的集体行为，这场流行病就可以战胜。保持(Stay)安全！
4 Best Coronavirus Dashboards And Maps To Monitor The Spread Of The Virus
Gripрed in the clutchеs of a global pandemic and with a vaccine perhaps a year or morе into the future, it’s never been more іmportant to bе informed. The best weapon we have against COVID-19 is information. Both to know how to tackle it as a population of people and when it comes to changing our behavior.
The good news is that we live in an age of data, so there are many Coronavirus dashboards that will help you. These are the four best examples to help you know what’s going on and how you should plan your movements.
Security Alert!
It seems that no matter what disaster we have to deal with, there will always be people who try to profit from it somehow. Sadly, hackers and creators of malicious software have taken to creating convincing Coronavirus dashboard sites that actually steal your data or infect your computer with malware. Always double check the address and make sure you’re using the legitimate site.
Let’s start off with a Coronavirus dashboard that’s probably where many other sites are getting their information. So why not get it straight from the horse’s mouth?
The World Health Organization is the central institution helping governments coordinate and strategize against the COVID-19 pandemic. Their site is minimalist, has all the most important information right there from the start and you can easily narrow down to any region of the world you want to see simply by clicking on it.
The WHO has also included a mode that shows only deaths from COVID by region and a bubble map mode which shows you the relative scale of cases by country at a glance. If you scroll down from the main map, there are well thought-out breakdowns of data to help you understand what’s going on on a global stage.
If you search “coronavirus”, you’ll go straight to Google’s own overview page. It pulls together all the relevant information Google can find into one place.
The Google service is a little slapped together and it can be a little confusing for a second, but once you get what Google is trying to do it all makes perfect sense. The “Overview” tab hits you with important breaking news related to the pandemic, but the actual map is squirreled away on the right of the page in its own little box. If you click “View full map” you’ll be taken to a dedicated map page, starting with the location Google detects for you.
This is clearly built on the existing Google Maps foundation, so if you’re used to using that system then this map already feels pretty familiar. The map is incredibly easy to read and provides data by state or province, depending on the country and the data in question.
Heading back to the first page and choosing the “Statistics” section, also gives a simple breakdown of infection trends over time. Google pulls data from several different sources as well, so it’s worth comparing its numbers with other sources if you’re in doubt. Google has also included information about symptoms, treatment, and prevention right at your fingertips. It’s a great dashboard to share with friends and family.
Not to be outdone by Google, Microsoft’s Bing also has a COVID-19 tracker on offer. If we’re being honest, it’s much better from a design and interface perspective. Unlike the Google offering, this seems like a site that was designed as a cohesive whole.
Of course looks don’t mean all that much if the data is bad, and perhaps Bing doesn’t communicate the statistics quite as effectively as Google does at first. However, once you know what you’re looking at it becomes pretty simple.
The map popup summary in particular is a nice touch, showing a concise breakdown of the big numbers associated with each region. Bing’s map uses the bubble format to show the number of cases in each region, which is fine as long as you don’t interpret the circles as geographical spread.
As with Google, Bing uses multiple sources of data and, hopefully, provides a more accurate overall picture than sites that only rely on only one source. Another neat thing Microsoft has done is to provide a COVID-19 FAQ Bot that can answer a wide range of questions related to the disease. While Bing might not be on top when it comes to search engine result quality, in this case they’ve outdone Google a little.
The Johns Hopkins University of Medicine is quite possibly the most famous medical institution in the world and they took no time at all to develop and make available a sophisticated Coronavirus dashboard in the form of a COVID-19 map.
In terms of visual design, this looks like it would be at home in a Hollywood military thriller, but if you can get over the depressing color scheme you’ll find one of the best pandemic maps available.
One thing we really liked is the ranked list of cases by country on the left of the map.This immediately shows you which countries should be at the top of your list when it comes to travel concerns.
On the downside, only the US gets more detailed area data via a dedicated map. So this Coronavirus dashboard is going to be of most use to US residents or those looking for data on the pandemic in the US. If you are a US resident, the information provided by the Johns Hopkins map is invaluable and we recommend bookmarking this site as a first port of call whenever you’re wondering what’s happening in your country.
Stick To The Basics!
It’s wonderful that so much information is available to us in a time of crisis such as this. However, no matter what the current statistics say, it should make no difference to the basic steps each and every person should take to limit the effects of COVID-19:
- Stay at least six feet away from other persons
- Wash your hands frequently with soap for 20 seconds or with alcohol-based hand sanitizer
- Wear a cloth masks at all times in public to curb asymptomatic spread
- Sanitize surfaces such as door handles regularly
There is currently no vaccine and no approved drugs to treat severe cases of COVID-19. Your best defence is therefore to prevent infection in the first place. COVID-19 is spread through droplets containing the virus and typically enters through the eyes, nose and mouth.
Only take advice from your government health officials and organizations such as the World Health Organization. Do not share false or unproven claims about COVID-19 on social media or in private messages.
If we can all change our collective behavior, this pandemic can be beaten. Stay safe!
